Business Coaching/Mentoring For EA Organisations

This post says "EA orgs" but the linked page specifically says "charities". I assume this offer is restricted to non-profits, but I am commenting to check that was your actual intent!

A number of effective animal advocacy nonprofits have listed "Pro bono management or leadership individual coaching/mentoring" as one of their top 3 most urgent needs in terms of pro bono support from skilled professionals. See the "leadership or senior management" section of our (Animal Advocacy Careers') skilled volunteering board.

(5 out of about 20 participating orgs selected as one of the top 3 priorities out of the more than 100 options they were given. And 5 others selected it as important and useful but not one of their top 3 priorities.)

So it's fantastic that you're offering this service! Please do use the above linked skilled volunteering board and the instructions there to connect with orgs if you're still looking for additional partners to work with. Thank you!

Nice, thanks for this offer! Seems worth me / my org seriously considering.

Do you have data on feedback/impact along the lines of systematically gathered anonymous feedback from clients on what benefits (if any) they feel coaching had for them? (I see there's a Results page, but that's non-anonymous testimonials and case studies that seem written by the agency itself, which seems useful but still leaves room for other types of data to be useful.)

Thank you for sharing this resource! I'll include it in this month's EA Newsletter, which goes out to a really large audience — I hope it helps you pick up a  client or two.

Your idea of connecting coaches with EA organizations is great. I've had similar ideas about connecting executive coaches (from business) and mental performance consultants (with a performance psychology background) with a broader audience of anyone working in jobs aimed to "tackle the most pressing problems in the world" (a la 80,000 hours).  I think there are a lot of people in the executive coach and mental performance consultant occupations that would want to contribute to EA through "donating" their services to those working in occupations more directly connected to EA.  I'd enjoy a chance to trade thoughts or talk more about your effort. Thank you. Best, Pete

I'm interested in applying this to EA Entrepreneurs. Let's talk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-barnes-toronto

Great initiative! The time is definitely ripe for something like this and it's wonderful that you're pivoting your business in this way. 

I have one concern, namely that the things you and your clients appear to be optimizing for are growth and revenue/profit. Of course, there's nothing inherently wrong with this but I worry that the expertise and skills of your coaches might deviate considerably from what EA leaders want to be optimizing for (e.g., different measures of impact over very long timelines and in epistemic terrain that's very messy). But ultimately, this is an empirical question and I wouldn't be surprised if what you offer is already valuable and my concerns are more important slightly down the line. Did you have any leaders sign up and do you collect feedback from them?